Asus goes official with Crosshair III Formula

Asus has officially announced its latest Republic of Gamers motherboard based on AMD's 790FX/SB750 chipset, the Crosshair III Formula.

The new ROG Crosshair motherboard has support for AMD's AM3 Phenom II processors and DDR3-1600 memory. It uses 8+2 phase power design and comes with two PCI-Express x16 slots, three PCI-Express x1 and single PCI slot. The rest of the specifications include five SATA 3.0Gbps ports and single eSATA port, Gigabit LAN, twelve USB ports, on board power and reset buttons and SupremeFX X-Fi 8-channel audio card with EAX4.0 support.

The new Crosshair III motherboard comes bundled with full version of Kaspersky anti-virus and Futuremark's 3DMark 06 as well as Asus' LCD Poster. Unfortunately, the price is still unknown as the motherboard is yet to be listed.